Contract Full Time
Location: Various
Categories: IT/TechnologyAbout the ABCThe ABC is the nation's most trusted and independent source of Australian conversations, culture, and stories. With over 4,000 employees from diverse backgrounds across over 50 locations around Australia and overseas, we are proud to create, curate and deliver high-quality content that informs, educates and entertains Australian communities.About the RoleDevelop and support the ABC's digital platforms and services, particularly focused on delivering media management, streaming and digital archiving solutions that support digital media audience experiences and content creators, aligning with ABC strategy and objectives. Strengthen the engineering foundation of the platforms that play a key enabler role in underpinning the success of ABC digital products.Key Accountabilities
- Provide highly advanced technical development skills within the ABC's Digital Products department, to develop secure and high-performance platforms and services.
- Under broad direction, and as a senior member of a team, deliver high quality software development and produce best possible results on code quality, efficiency, system sustainability, scalability, and security within agreed time and budget requirements.
- Create and maintain accurate and detailed documentation, including technical designs, product specifications, architecture details, support & operation guides, testing instructions and thought processes.
- Maintain a high level of awareness of best engineering practices in the industry and share with other team members. Working with Engineering Managers and Technical Leads to drive the effort in implementation of best practices throughout Digital Product teams.
- As a senior member of the team, drive the effort in continuously strengthen the architectural foundation of the platform and drive the architectural improvements and best practices for the platform.
- Ensure separation of concerns and create layers of abstractions and re-usable components where appropriate. Adopt service-oriented architecture when designing particularly complex systems and apply industry best practices where appropriate.
- Proactively validate assumptions, properly rectify defects with due diligence and effectively minimise any band-aid solution or technical debt.
- Apply audience-centric mindset when solving product and engineering problems.
- Demonstrated significant experience in full-stack software development. Strong React skills with any experience in Go preferred; with ability to write clean, efficient and testable code, and ability to effectively refactor old code base and optimise legacy applications.
- Significant experience in developing highly complex, secure and high-performance user interface and digital platform for a range of devices and platforms.
- Solid knowledge and experience in assessing, selecting and using modern frameworks and build tools, implementing automated/unit testing, and version control branching, merging and versioning strategies.
- Well versed in building media solutions with 3rd party tools. Experience in media streaming, transcoding, DRM, playout and archiving platforms is advantageous.
- Outstanding communication (verbal and written) skills with the ability to convey or translate highly complex technical information to a broad range of stakeholders is essential.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills with the proven ability to work effectively under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
- Highly proficient analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to solve the most complex problems with methodical approach and attention to details.
Applications close: 14 Jun 2024 5:00 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time